Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 54
The priest assured them that his prayer had been without fault and there would be no death in all that belonged to the gods.
Who acts: priest, prayer, death · What happens: assure, be, belong, pray · To what, where: people, death
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, prayer, death), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assured | nsubj |
| 3 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assured | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 fault | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fault | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fault | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 fault | cop |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 fault | case |
| 11 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assured | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 death | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 be | expl |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 be | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 death | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 death | det |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fault | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 that | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 that | det:predet |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 belonged | nsubj |
| 21 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 death | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 gods | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gods | det |
| 24 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 belonged | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | past | the priest | people | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | priest's prayer | without fault and no death | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | priest's prayer not said here | no death | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | belong | past | no death | to the gods | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pray | priest | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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